When you're reading and suddenly a characterrelies, understands, or finally figures something out, stop and ask yourself:
"How might this change things?"
If the character figured out a problem, you probably just learned about the conflict.
If the character understood a life lesson, you probably just learned the theme.
Bone: Quest for the Spark Book 1 , p. 210 - "This must be why the Dreaming thought the Rat Creatures were important,he thought."
Loser , by Jerry Spinelli p.108 - "Even in bed that night, Zinkoff can still feel the shake and shimmy of the old rattletrap, and coming through loud and clear is a message that was never said. He knows that he could lose a thousand races and his father will never give up on him. he knows that if he ever springs a leak or throws a gasket, his dad will be there with duct tape and chewing him to patch him up, that no matter how much he rattles and knocks, he'll always be a honeybug to his dad, never a clunker."
Loser , by Jerry Spinelli p. 185 - "And Zinkoff saw in that moment something that he had no words for. He saw that a kid runs to be found and jumps to be caught."
The Outsiders , by S.E. Hinton p. 38 - "That's why we're separated," I said. "It's not money, it's feeling - you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently." p. 76 - "But I realized that these three appealed to me because they were like the heroes in the novels I read." p. 88 - "I thought about it for a minute. Darry and Soda were my brothers... p. 98 - "In that second, what Soda and Dally and Two-Bit had been trying to tell me all came through..." p. 138 - "I'd never thought about it before, but they would just get worse as they got older..." p. 152 - "Why can I take it when Dally can't? And then I knew..." p. 175 - "Neither of us realized what it was doing to Soda when we fought..." Please delete this page no
AHA MOMENT
When you're reading and suddenly a character relies, understands, or finally figures something out, stop and ask yourself:
"How might this change things?"
If the character figured out a problem, you probably just learned about the conflict.
If the character understood a life lesson, you probably just learned the theme.
Bone: Quest for the Spark Book 1 , p. 210 - "This must be why the Dreaming thought the Rat
Creatures were important,he thought."
Loser , by Jerry Spinelli p.108 - "Even in bed that night, Zinkoff can still feel the shake and shimmy of the old rattletrap, and coming through loud and clear is a message that was never said. He knows that he could lose a thousand races and his father will never give up on him. he knows that if he ever springs a leak or throws a gasket, his dad will be there with duct tape and chewing him to patch him up, that no matter how much he rattles and knocks, he'll always be a honeybug to his dad, never a clunker."
Loser , by Jerry Spinelli p. 185 - "And Zinkoff saw in that moment something that he had no words for. He saw that a kid runs to be found and jumps to be caught."
The Outsiders , by S.E. Hinton
p. 38 - "That's why we're separated," I said. "It's not money, it's feeling - you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently."
p. 76 - "But I realized that these three appealed to me because they were like the heroes in the novels I read."
p. 88 - "I thought about it for a minute. Darry and Soda were my brothers...
p. 98 - "In that second, what Soda and Dally and Two-Bit had been trying to tell me all came through..."
p. 138 - "I'd never thought about it before, but they would just get worse as they got older..."
p. 152 - "Why can I take it when Dally can't? And then I knew..."
p. 175 - "Neither of us realized what it was doing to Soda when we fought..."
Please delete this page
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